Michael Dell Quotes

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

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• The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Bad
  • Day

• To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I love proving people wrong.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Proving

• Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Small
  • Day

• It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Ideas

• If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I'm a work in progress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Progress

• People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Worst
  • Scared

• Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • She
  • America

• But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Team
  • Day

• All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • White
  • Just Because

• The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I've been fortunate to be around good people.

  

  Phil Knight
  • People
  • Good

• There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • World
  • Work
  • College

• I only had one focus and one direction, and I knew where my spirit and heart lived, and it was in singing and dancing and acting, being that. I know a lot of young people dream that, but it's good that it worked out for me because it was all I ever wanted to do.

  

  Cheryl Ladd
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I believe Colorado needs representation from a conservative who has worked his way through the types of obstacles with which nearly all middle-class and lower-income people struggle.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Struggle

• Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • Time
  • Space

• I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • American
  • Single

• I definitely promise to always make films about issues that matter to me.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Promise

• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

  

  Michael Dell
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